Text -- Luke 11:7 (NET)

11:7 Then he will reply reply from inside, ‘Do not bother bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot cannot get up and give you anything.’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 11:7

¹ tn Κἀκεῖνος (kakeino") has been translated “Then he.”

² tn Grk “answering, he will say.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “he will reply.”

³ tn Grk “my children are with me in the bed.” In Jewish homes in the time of Jesus, the beds were often all together in one room; thus the householder may be speaking of individual beds (using a collective singular) rather than a common bed.

⁴ tn The syntax of vv. 6-7 is complex. In the Greek text Jesus’ words in v. 6 begin as a question. Some see Jesus’ question ending at v. 6, but the reply starting in v. 8 favors extending the question through the entire illustration. The translation breaks up the long sentence at the beginning of v. 7 and translates Jesus’ words as a statement for reasons of English style.